Connecticut Port Authority

The Connecticut Port Authority will pay construction firm Kiewit $11.3 million for work on State Pier in New London.

The controversial pier has cost the state of Connecticut over $311 million—far more than originally expected. It was redeveloped exclusively for the offshore wind industry, which was booming under the Biden administration.

In Connecticut, the New Haven Port and the New London Pier have been selected to receive nearly $40 million from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to help reduce greenhouse emissions.

New leadership is coming to the Connecticut Port Authority. Ulysses Hammond, interim executive director since 2022, will retire this Friday. David Kooris, chairman since 2019, is stepping down to start a new job with the state.

The Connecticut Port Authority violated the state’s Freedom of Information Act when it withheld records from a WSHU reporter about the final cost of its State Pier project in New London.

The Connecticut Port Authority is discussing a potential $6 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The money would go toward buying and using shoreside electricity for ships docked at New London’s State Pier.

The 10-year-old Connecticut Port Authority has been scrutinized for past leadership spending, ethics violations by a staff and board member and the redevelopment of the State Pier in New London.

The Attorney General's office began investigating the CT Port Authority in 2020 after it got a whistleblower complaint about a 'success fee.'

The New London State Pier is currently being used to build wind turbines for New York’s South Fork Wind project. Its final construction cost the state and taxpayers over $300 million.

The Port Authority, a quasi-public agency, has come under fire for questionable spending, ethics violations and other contracting practices.